Routine mammograms are best known as a front-line tool for detecting breast cancer. But new research suggests the same X-ray ...

Heart disease and stroke are the world's two most deadly diseases, causing over 15 million deaths in 2016 according to the World Health Organization. A key underlying factor in both of these global ...

Researchers from Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) have uncovered a link between cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease, revealing novel disease biomarkers and therapeutic targets ...

Mammograms may hold untapped value beyond cancer screening. In a new study, researchers said that it may be able to forecast a woman’s future risk of heart attack, heart failure, stroke, and ...

A drug candidate, previously successful at treating severe fatty liver disease, reduces atherosclerosis—a primary driver of cardiovascular death worldwide—in large mammals, a study suggests. Real-time ...

A collaboration between researchers at FIU’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine (HWCOM) and the College of Engineering & Computing (CEC) has resulted in a U.S. patent that could eventually ...

In the hemodialysis population, cardiovascular calcifications result from excess phosphate and calcium, as well as reduced activity of inhibitors of calcification, such as matrix Gla protein. Vitamin ...

SEPTEMBER IS VASCULAR DISEASE AWARENESS MONTH. A DISEASE THAT AFFECTS ARTERIES, VEINS AND LYMPHATICS. I’M JOINED NOW LIVE BY DOCTOR WILLIAM TONGUE, WHO’S A VASCULAR SURGEON AT UPMC. THANKS SO MUCH FOR ...